A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of its 92 emperors. The Byzantine empire...
An "oddball fairy tale" (The New York Times)--shortlisted for one of France's highest literary prizes--a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric...
The remarkable tale of how a man who lacked any formal education, wealth and connections came to set up and run the hugely successful Matsushita Electric Company. 16 b/w photos.
Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left behind a remarkable legacy when she died at the age of ninety-eight. Her vivid visual vocabulary -- sensuous...
Professor Brian Little moves the field of personality science beyond the nature vs. Nurture debate, arguing for a third nature to the human condition - the individual pursuit of personal projects...
A sex therapist and neuroscientist describes anhedonia, the inability to feel a satisfactory amount of pleasure--and provides the pathway back to fully enjoying sex, food, time with family and...
Join the happiness revolution! The author of the New York Times bestseller The Little Book of Hygge offers more inspiration and suggestions for achieving greater happiness, by practicing Lykke...
Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy, searches for a stolen masterpiece aby Caravaggio in #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva's latest action-packed tale of high stakes...
A fully updated and revised edition of a classic bestseller: the definitive guide to Tutankhamun and his tomb - what it contained, why, and what it means today. On 4 November 1922, Lord Carnarvon...
This exceptional volume brings together nearly 1,000 images representing the diversity and richness of the visual arts in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.
For centuries, Rydstrom, fallen king of the Rage Demons, has fought to seize his crown, never relenting, until he is tricked into the lair of an exquisite enchantress. If she can tempt him to her...
In the vein of Erling Kagge's Silence and Lars Mytting's Norwegian Wood, Under the Open Skies: A Practical Guide to Living Close to Nature combines escapism and adventure with a love of...
**A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller** "Once again, Megan Miranda has crafted the perfect summer thriller." --Riley Sager, New York Times...
Dr Kenneth Lacovara, world-renowned paleontologist and discoverer of the super-massive Dreadnoughtus reveals how understanding dinosaurs can help us better understand our own humanity.
A joyful, humorous rhyming tale about how friends lift each other up, from the creators of the internationally bestselling I'm Sticking With You and I'm Sticking With You Too.
When Angelica and Simon Fear lost their two daughters, it nearly destroyed them. Now the Fears have only one mission--to summon every ounce of dark power within them, and bring their daughters back...
The sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Thousandth FloorNew York, 2118. Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a breathtaking marv
Surveys the history of changing tastes in food and fine dining - what was available for people to eat, and how it was prepared and served - from prehistory to the present daySince earliest times...
A visionary alternate history of the United States filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick's stature as our...
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD SAYERS WAYTE HAS EVERYTHING.Popularity, good looks, perfect grades—there's nothing Sayers' family money can't buy.Until he's kidnapped aby a man who tells him the...